VILLAGES BOMBED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 August 1940, Page 5

VILLAGES BOMBED

CASUALTIES & DAMAGE IN SOME AREAS ATTACKERS DRIVEN OFF. PURSUED BY FIGHTERS. (By Telegraph'—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, August 10. A German raider machine-gun-ned workmen who were engaged on a building job in a village in south-eastern England and dropped 12 bombs before being driven off. There were several casualties and some material damage was done. Four persons were killed and a number injured as a result of a raid on a town on the north-west coast. Many persons narrowly escaped when five bombs fell on another southeastern town. One bomb made a hit on a house in which the owner’s wife was buried beneath the debris; firemen, however, extricated the woman, who was suffering only from shock. Bombs fell on a pathway in the garden of another home, blowing a woman through an open door. Between 15 and 20 houses were damaged. Bombs which were dropped in Wales killed ducks, turkeys and chickens. Several houses were partially wrecked and two streets were littered with shattered woodwork and broken glass when a bomb fell in a town on the north-east coast. No casualties resulted. but there were a number of remarkable escapes. The bomb made a 20-foot crater in a garden where a family were taking refuge. five yards away in an air-raid shelter. They emerged scatheless. Bombs were also dropped in a residential district of a town on the coast, severely damaging a number of houses.

Raiders in the south-east were driven to sea by British fighters, most of their bombs dropping in open country.